Push-button bell.



PATENTED JUNE 26, 1906.

J. R. KIDNEY;

PUSH BUTTON BELL. APPLICATION FILED 002m, 1905,

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J. R. KIDNEY. PUSH BUTTON BELL.

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JOSIAH R. KIDNEY, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT.

PUSH-BUTTON BELL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1906.

Application filed October 9, 1905. Serial No. 281,917.

T (0% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH R, KIDNEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Push-ButtonBells; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a view in elevation of a bell constructed in accordance withmy invention shown as applied to a door and with the gong removed; Fig.2, a sectional view thereof on the line a b of Fig.1; Fig. 3, asectional view on the line 0 d of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a detached view of theoperating-bar; Fig. 5, another corresponding view thereof; Fig. 6, anend view of the rotary hub which receives the spiral portion of the saidbar; Fig. 7, a detached end view of the housing for the said hub.

My invention relates to an improvement in push-button bells, the objectbeing to produce at a low cost for manufacture a strong, reliable, andefiective mechanism dispensing with the escapement-wheel and vergefeaigupps generally employed in push-button WVith these ends in view myinvention consists in a bell having certain details of construction andcombinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, andparticularly recited in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown I employ a push-button 2,mounted in a flanged esoutcheon 3, secured by screws 4 to the outer faceof a door 5 or corresponding structural part. The said button 2 isformed with a socket 6, receiving the outer end of a wire stem 7, havingan eye 8, which passes through a perforation 9, formed in the outer endof a spiral plate-like operating-bar 10, the spirally-bent end of whichenters into and plays back and forth in a centrally-arranged narrow slot11, formed in the inner end of a rotary hub 12, mounted so as to be freeto turn in either direction in a cylindrical housing 13, somewhat longerthan the thickness of the door 5, and reduced in diameter at one end toform a neck 14, entering a circular opening in the center of adiametricallyarranged cross-bar 16, formed integral with the ring-shapedframe 17 of the device and located in the plane thereof. At its oppositeend the housing 13 is formed with a narrow rectangular opening18,receiving the bar 10. The rotary hub 12 aforesaid carries a wheel 19,meshing into a pinion 20, turning upon a stud 21, mounted in an ear 22,offsetting from one edge of the cross-bar 16. The said pinion 20 carriesa wheel 23, which meshes into a pinion 24, forming a part of a bushing25, mounted in the center of a revolving platelike striker-carrier 26,which is furnished at its respective ends with longitudinally-movablestrikers 27 27, of any approved construction, for engagement with a lug28, formed upon the inner face of a gong 29, which is furnished with aninwardly-extending hub 30, threaded for the reception of a post 31,which passes through the hub and forms, as it were, the center on whichthe part 26 revolves concentric with the frame 17 and gong 29. The saidpost 31 and housing 13 are located in line with each other, but extendin opposite directions from the cross-bar 16 of the frame 17. The saidpost 31 is riveted to the center of a plate-like bridge 32, secured byscrews 33 33, passing through its ends into the cross-bar 16, which isfurnished with threaded lugs 34 34 for the ends of the plate to restupon, a space 35 being formed between the bridge 32 and the centralportion of the upper face of the bar 16 for the reception of the wheel 19, whichis thus held in place, together with the hub 12, which rotatesin the housing 13. A spiral spring 36, located in the rotary hub 12,engages with the inner end of the plate-like operating-bar 10 andconstantly exerts an effort to push the same, and hence the button 2,outward into readiness for operation.

It will bereadily understood that inward pressure on the button 2 acts,through the stem 6 and bar 10, to compress the spring 36, while thespiral portion of the bar 10, coacting with the side walls of theopening 11 in the rotary hub 12, causes the hub to rotate, and hence toturn the wheel 19, which revolves the pinion 20 and the wheel 23, whichlatter revolves the pinion 24, and hence the striker-carrier 26,carrying the strikers 27. When pressure upon the push-button is removed,the spring acts upon the plate 10, which then correspondingly rotatesthe hub 12 in the opposite direction and causes a reverse revolution ofthe striker-carrier. It will thus be seen that I secure the rotation ofthe striker through the bushing of the pushbutton without the use of atransforming mechanism employing a verge and escapement-wheel.

It is apparent that in carrying out my invention some changes from theconstruction herein shown and described may be made. I would thereforehave it understood that I do not limit myself thereto, but hold myselfat liberty to make such departures therefrom as fairly fall within thespirit and scope of my invention. I am aware, however, that the use of apush-button and spiral are not, broadly, new as applied to the operationof the revolving striker of a bell and do not claim them as such.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is-

1. In a bell, the combination with the frame thereof, of a housingrigidly secured at one end thereto and formed at its opposite end with anarrow slot, a rotary hub located within the said housing which forms abearing for it and having at one end a narrow slot, an operating-barpassing through the narrow slot in the said housing and having a spiralpassing through the said slot in the hub and turning the hub in eitherdirection within the said housing, a push-button for operating the saidbar in one direction, a spring located within the said hub for operatingthe said bar in the other direction, a gong connected with the saidframe, a striker-carrier, and means for transmitting the rotary movementof the said hub to the said carrier.

2. In a bell, the combination with a frame having a cross-bar located inits plane, of a tubular housing fixed to the said cross-bar andextending in one direction therefrom, a threaded post connected with thecross-bar and extending in the other direction therefrom in line withthe said housing, a gong applied to the said post, a striker-carriermounted upon the post and revolving concentrically with the said frameand gong, a rotary hub located within the housing and formed with anarrow slot, an operating-bar formed with a spiral which enters the saidslot and operates to turn the said hub in either direction within thesaid housing, and gearing between the hub and striker-carrier.

3. In a bell, the combination with a frame having a cross-bar, of ahousing secured to the said bar, a plate secured to the said bar, athreaded post carried by the said plate and located in line with thehousing but extending in the opposite direction therefrom, a gongmounted upon the post, a striker-carrier swiveled upon the post andrevolving concentrically with the gong, a rotary hub located within thehousing and formed with a narrow slot, an operating-bar having a spiralentering the said slot and rotating the said hub within the saidhousing, a push-button for operating the bar in one direction, a springfor operating the bar in the opposite direction, and gearing between thehub and rotary striker.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

' JOSIAI-I R. KIDNEY. l/Vitness'es: MICHAEL T. WALL, WILBUR F. STARR

